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  1. Bellhorn04
    What I'm suggesting is that there are a lot of X factors in play. For the Yankees we can start with Sabathia and Tanaka. Pretty hard to predict. But if those two have strong seasons, etc. etc.
  2. Bellhorn04
    The Yankees have a lot of question marks, but so did we going into last season. Everything went right for us. I'm not writing off the Yankees this year. If Sabathia comes back, if Pineda comes back, if they sign Drew etc....
  3. Bellhorn04
    Very good.
  4. Bellhorn04
    In what way is it a big weakness though? In the competitive fairness department, all the Yankees spending isn't equating to many championships lately. In the business department, MLB is obviously raking in more money than ever.
  5. Bellhorn04
    That's the same thing we heard about Dice-K. What are the final numbers on the Dice-K marketing benefits?
  6. Bellhorn04
    My memories of 1986 are mostly good ones, except for the finish obviously. I had a trip to Boston that year with some buddies that was the best trip I've ever had there. We arrived on a Friday night. They lost the Friday game 14-3 to the Orioles, but Fenway was in a big party mood regardless. The next afternoon we spent several hours at the Cask N Flagon. There were 5 of us, a couple of them were former college football players who weighed over 250. We were all big beer drinkers. We drank so many beers that afternoon that when we were about to leave, the manager insisted that he have his picture taken with us.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I remember Game 4. It was on a Saturday night and I was watching it in a bar while drinking heavily. Clemens was pitching for us and we had a 3-0 lead going to the 9th. For some reason the group I was with moved somewhere else and I stopped watching the game. Then, it must have been at least an hour later, I passed by a TV and saw that the game was still going on. I felt sick to my stomach. The Angels had scored 3 in the 9th and then they scored 1 in the 11th to go up 3-1 in the series.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Right. And what they are doing now is making it up as they go along, don't you think? If they knew they were going to bust through the 189, and they knew it was going to be all about getting back to the postseason, why the hell not pay Cano?
  9. Bellhorn04
    If you're thinking of Austin Jackson, you have to also think of why Detroit would be willing to trade him to us and for what.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Because they said they were gonna get under the 189 million threshold, of course! Seriously, there were a lot of stories about the Yankees being determined to get under the 189. In retrospect it seems laughable. However, there were two factors that lent the story some credibility: 1) Supposedly, there is a big, bad new financial penalty for luxury tax payers in 2014 - the 'revenue-sharing-disqualification' penalty, or words to that effect, which some stories projected could be in the tens of millions for 2014, on top of the 50% tax. 2) The Yankees did seem to be trimming payroll a bit the last few years, most notably last offseason when they cut Swisher and Martin loose and made no effort to replace them. The current spending spree does raise the question of why the f*** they let go of their best hitter by far.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Yep...our Benny Boy is staying sharp.
  12. Bellhorn04
    But pitcher salaries are taking another inflationary leap before our eyes. Greinke is arguably a good comp for Lester (ERA of 3.80 in the AL) and he pulls down 25 million.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Well, this offseason stopped being boring.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I can't see that being good news for us.
  15. Bellhorn04
    "Yanks won't be signing anymore notable FA's this off-season, Cashman said yesterday the bank is basically closed." Source: Divinity
  16. Bellhorn04
    Now I don't see why the Yankees wouldn't top that.
  17. Bellhorn04
    So it's a risky steal.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Apparently yes. The Reds thought they had a deal with Sizemore in fact.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. There will be a correction at some point.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Sounds about right. But man, the economics of baseball are rather mind-boggling - how long can the salaries continue to grow at a rate of inflation that is so disproportionate to the general economy?
  21. Bellhorn04
    Something tells me the Yankees won't let him pitch in the WBC. That's what probably destroyed Dice-K...nice that he got 2 MVP awards though.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Half-joking, but they just wouldn't be the same Yankees if they were serious about this 'under the tax threshold' nonsense. And next year they'll have that little A-Rod expenditure back on the books.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Well, in a way it's reassuring that the Yankees are back to their old 200 million+ payroll selves.
  24. Bellhorn04
    So he makes 3-4 million.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Did you just use the word silly in the same sentence as the Bodacious one?
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